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Dr. Roger Thomas
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the data from the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys on deaths from hypothermia in winter.
Sir George Young
Routine statistics based on a single cause using the International Classification of Diseases are an incomplete measure of the number of deaths involving hypothermia and therefore a special count of all death registrations which mention hypothermia—whether alone or with other causes—is carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. The figures, for all ages and all circumstances in which hypothermia was mentioned on death registrations in England and Wales in recent December and March quarters, are as follows:
Quarter of registration | |
December quarter 1974 March quarter 1975 | 128 |
March quarter 1975 | 217 |
December quarter 1975 | 150 |
March quarter 1976 | 291 |
December quarter 1976 | 203 |
March quarter 1977 | 343 |
December quarter 1977 | 138 |
March quarter 1978 | 420 |
December quarter 1978 | 144 |
March quarter 1979 | 535* |
* Provisional. |